DataDirect ODBC Drivers

Superior performance from the industry’s only suite of wire protocol ODBC drivers.

  • Delivers the fastest, most scalable application performance
  • Supports all major databases and platforms, including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL and more
  • UNIX / Linux support in addition to Windows
  • 64-bit and 32-bit application support
  • Proven, reliable drivers backed by award-winning support

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Key Features

Performance
  • Wire protocol architecture
  • Multiple connection tuning options and easy driver tuning via Performance Wizard
  • Load balancing
  • Pooling and managing connections
  • Statement pooling
  • Data conversion
  • Socket management
  • Network wire management
  • Batching and throughput optimization

Security
  • Operating system authentication (aka Single Sign-On) via Kerberos
  • SSL data encryption

Enterprise Application Functionality
  • Application failover
  • Load balancing
  • Windows ODBC Driver Manager for Unix/Linux
  • Unicode and ANSI character sets
  • Interoperability between databases and different versions of each database
  • Built-in debugging capabilities

Driver Functionality
  • Advanced data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, NCHAR, etc.
  • Consistently supports the latest ODBC specification and database features
What's New

Release 6.0:
New drivers for Greenplum and PostgreSQL, bulk load, application failover, advanced connection pooling and more…

Success Stories

DBBalance
Out-of-the box connectivity

UK's ECGD
Improving Oracle performance

Perceptive Software
Broad database support leads to more sales